Health Projects

Himalayan Trust built two hospitals and several village health clinics under its health service programme.
Kunde Hospital:   This hospital located in Kunde village (3840m.) of Mount Everest region was built in 1966 and is a 15 bed hospital. The hospital is managed by the Himalayan Trust with funding from the Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation of Canada.  The hospital has the objectives of providing prompt and quality treatment to all Nepalese at free of cost and with nominal charge to foreigners. The hospital also aims to carry on an effective health promotion programme especially to the poor and under-priviledged people of the area. 



Its service is not only focused on treatment only but to promote preventive health programme through its periphery health clinics by health education, vaccination, family planning and maternity services.

Kunde Hospital was staffed by volunteer doctors from New Zealand and Canada from 1966 to 2001 assisted by local health workers. But from 2002, the hospital is totally staffed by local doctors and health workers with short term foreign volunteer doctors. Overseas foreign doctors having specialization can serve as volunteer for short term period with advance approval from the doctor in-charge at Kunde Hospital. But the hospital does not entertain any Elective Medical Students for their experiences.



Kunde Hospital supervises 6 periphery village health clinics.  Four health clinics are built and managed by the Himalayan Trust and two are managed by the government. Thami health clinic, Portse health clinic, Debuche health clinic and Monzo health clinic are under the Himalayan Trust management.  Namche health clinic, Pangboche health clinic and Chhoplung health clinic are managed by the government.

Phaplu Hospital

Phaplu Hospital located in the district headquarter, Salleri, of Solukhumbu was built by the Himalayan Trust in 1975. The hospital was directly managed by Himalayan Trust until 1984 and then handed over to the government of Nepal. Phaplu Hospital is today operated as the government district hospital.  However, Himalayan Trust continues to support the hospital with supplies of essential medicines, incentives to the staff and periodic maintenance of physical facilities in order to maintain its quality medical care.